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1798 or 1799 Draped Bust Copper Large Cent?

InGodWeTrustCoinsInGodWeTrustCoins Posts: 150 ✭✭✭
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Which year do you think this is? 1798 or 1799?
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  • matt_dacmatt_dac Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sadly unreadable date...

  • coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭

    Certainly a 98

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    98

    Dave

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  • CRH4LIFECRH4LIFE Posts: 849 ✭✭✭✭

    +1 for 98

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is there a word missing on the reverse? ?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1798

    There is diagnostic spot on the reverse for the 1799. That spot is gone on this piece, perhaps for a reason.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1798.... Looking at the pictures, it seems to show the full rounded top of an eight as opposed to the curve of the nine...Cheers, RickO

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